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After Mt. Greenwood Police Shooting, Black Lives Matter Told To 'Go Home' - DNAinfo
Monday, November 28, 2016A group shouting "Blue Lives Matter" gathered near the scene of the police shooting Saturday night.Southwest Chicago Diversity Collaborative, a group of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mt. Greenwood resident who support and celebrate diversity, responded to the shooting Sunday."The incident is of grave concern to us due to the way many have chosen to demonize the victim and have made a judgment of guilt without evidence," the group's board said in a statement. "We continue to believe that it is important for all people to feel safe in this community, including those who gather in protest," SCDC said.The group said they "believe it is necessary to provide a space that allows for the discussion about how racism affects the way these incidents are viewed without derailing the conversation to focus on other groups or concerns."Beal's family told Fox Chicago that the incident began when an off-duty police officer cut off members of the funeral procession in traffic, and that Beal had a license to carry a gun.The Indianapolis man was only in Chicago to be a pallbearer at a cousin's funeral, Fox reported.“Chicago police gunned my baby down like a vicious animal,” Beal's mother, Tiffaney Boxley, told the Tribune.Family members said they would consult a lawyer, the Tribune reported.“The police are going to pay for this,” Miranda Macklin, a family member, said to the Tribune. “Justice will be served.”In a video of the incident posted on YouTube, at least 13 shots were fired. Police told the Tribune they were not sure if Beal fired his weapon. The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the incident, and the officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days, police said.For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here.
Monday, August 29, 2016Richard Feltes, Ramona's fourth son. "She was just delighted to have created this thing and see so many happy faces on the customers. She took a real sense of fulfillment and pride in that."The West Chicago farm is where Ramona spent most of her 98 years. She helped her parents with farm work in her younger years, invited the public onto the property through a small farmstand she started with her husband, and launched the farm's popular fall fest with her nine children.On Aug. 13, she died peacefully in her sleep, in the same bedroom of the farmhouse where she was born.The Sonny Acres matriarch is being remembered by her kids as a hardworking, devoted mother who had an entrepreneurial spirit and deep dedication to her family farm."I think my mom defined the term working woman before the phrase was ever coined," said Ramona's only daughter, Joan Herrmann. "She was a savvy businesswoman, but she was also all about family and nurturing and giving."Richard said some of his mother's earliest memories included bringing wood into the house to keep the stove going, collecting eggs from the chickens and serving lunch to the men who would come to the farm -- originally known as Oakwood Farm because of all the oak trees surrounding it -- to help with the harvest.While attending West Chicago High School, Ramona lived with her grandparents in a house on the corner of Main Street and Route 59, where a McDonald's now stands. She walked to school during the week and went ...
Monday, July 25, 2016Texas last week will take place Tuesday in Michigan.Michael Krol's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church at 27101 West Chicago in Redford Township.His visitation is Monday from 3-8 p.m. at Harry J. Will Funeral Home, 25450 Plymouth Road, Redford Township.An earlier service will be held Friday morning at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.Krol, 40, was working his dream job as a police officer when he was gunned down July 7, his family said last week. Four other officers were also killed during the ambush by a man who he was upset over recent police-involved shootings of African Americans and "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," police said.Michael Smith, 55; Patrick Zamarripa, 32; Lorne Ahrens, 48, and Brent Thompson, 43, also died in the attack that occurred as hundreds of people peacefully protested the police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Seven other police officers and two civilians were injured during the shooting.Krol worked in jails for the Wayne County Sheriff's Office from 2003 to 2007 and graduated from the Dallas Police Academy in April 2008."He really wanted to be a cop, and they weren't hiring around here, so he moved, by himself, to Dallas to become a cop because they were hiring," his brother in-law Brian Schoenbaechler told the Free Press last week.Krol's family remembered him as a man who like helping people and never shied away from his duty as a police officer.Contact Elisha Anderson: ean...
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After Mt. Greenwood Police Shooting, Black Lives Matter Told To 'Go Home' - DNAinfo
Monday, November 28, 2016A group shouting "Blue Lives Matter" gathered near the scene of the police shooting Saturday night.Southwest Chicago Diversity Collaborative, a group of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mt. Greenwood resident who support and celebrate diversity, responded to the shooting Sunday."The incident is of grave concern to us due to the way many have chosen to demonize the victim and have made a judgment of guilt without evidence," the group's board said in a statement. "We continue to believe that it is important for all people to feel safe in this community, including those who gather in protest," SCDC said.The group said they "believe it is necessary to provide a space that allows for the discussion about how racism affects the way these incidents are viewed without derailing the conversation to focus on other groups or concerns."Beal's family told Fox Chicago that the incident began when an off-duty police officer cut off members of the funeral procession in traffic, and that Beal had a license to carry a gun.The Indianapolis man was only in Chicago to be a pallbearer at a cousin's funeral, Fox reported.“Chicago police gunned my baby down like a vicious animal,” Beal's mother, Tiffaney Boxley, told the Tribune.Family members said they would consult a lawyer, the Tribune reported.“The police are going to pay for this,” Miranda Macklin, a family member, said to the Tribune. “Justice will be served.”In a video of the incident posted on YouTube, at least 13 shots were fired. Police told the Tribune they were not sure if Beal fired his weapon. The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the incident, and the officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days, police said.For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here.
Monday, August 29, 2016Richard Feltes, Ramona's fourth son. "She was just delighted to have created this thing and see so many happy faces on the customers. She took a real sense of fulfillment and pride in that."The West Chicago farm is where Ramona spent most of her 98 years. She helped her parents with farm work in her younger years, invited the public onto the property through a small farmstand she started with her husband, and launched the farm's popular fall fest with her nine children.On Aug. 13, she died peacefully in her sleep, in the same bedroom of the farmhouse where she was born.The Sonny Acres matriarch is being remembered by her kids as a hardworking, devoted mother who had an entrepreneurial spirit and deep dedication to her family farm."I think my mom defined the term working woman before the phrase was ever coined," said Ramona's only daughter, Joan Herrmann. "She was a savvy businesswoman, but she was also all about family and nurturing and giving."Richard said some of his mother's earliest memories included bringing wood into the house to keep the stove going, collecting eggs from the chickens and serving lunch to the men who would come to the farm -- originally known as Oakwood Farm because of all the oak trees surrounding it -- to help with the harvest.While attending West Chicago High School, Ramona lived with her grandparents in a house on the corner of Main Street and Route 59, where a McDonald's now stands. She walked to school during the week and went ...
Monday, July 25, 2016Texas last week will take place Tuesday in Michigan.Michael Krol's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church at 27101 West Chicago in Redford Township.His visitation is Monday from 3-8 p.m. at Harry J. Will Funeral Home, 25450 Plymouth Road, Redford Township.An earlier service will be held Friday morning at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.Krol, 40, was working his dream job as a police officer when he was gunned down July 7, his family said last week. Four other officers were also killed during the ambush by a man who he was upset over recent police-involved shootings of African Americans and "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," police said.Michael Smith, 55; Patrick Zamarripa, 32; Lorne Ahrens, 48, and Brent Thompson, 43, also died in the attack that occurred as hundreds of people peacefully protested the police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Seven other police officers and two civilians were injured during the shooting.Krol worked in jails for the Wayne County Sheriff's Office from 2003 to 2007 and graduated from the Dallas Police Academy in April 2008."He really wanted to be a cop, and they weren't hiring around here, so he moved, by himself, to Dallas to become a cop because they were hiring," his brother in-law Brian Schoenbaechler told the Free Press last week.Krol's family remembered him as a man who like helping people and never shied away from his duty as a police officer.Contact Elisha Anderson: ean...
